Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Earth Hour campaign which started in Sydney in 2007 is now entering its 4th year. It is reported that hundreds of millions of people around the world has supported in Earth Hour 2009 last year.

You can participate in the worldwide Earth Hour 2010 campaign by switching off all the non-essential lights for 60 minutes by Saturday 27 March 2010, 8.30pm sharp.

No doubt WWF has successfully made Earth Hour a global moment for many people to participate and turn off their lights during the historical moment.

However, what happened after that 60 minutes? Did WWF raise enough awareness to us of global climate change issues? Did we made any changes to our day-to-day habit after participated in that 60 minutes Earth Hour?

Why people in the soutern hemisphere started to see so many iceburgs floating around the ocean far away from the Antarctica? Why people in the northern hemisphere is experiencing the coolest winter season now?

I believe that supporting Earth Hour is not only for that 60 minutes moment. After that, we should be more awared of the issue that suppose to be brought up in this campaign, and act accordingly to reduce the burden of Mother Earth whenever we can.

Earth Hour should remain as a serious matter, and not merely becoming another celebration event of the year.

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Avant-Garde Food Critic [News Poem, March 18, 2010]http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/avant-garde-food-critic-news-poem-march.html“Andrew Wetzler of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the CITES vote is not the end of the story for the bear."The ironic thing is that all the countries of the conference acknowledge that global warming is posing a huge challenge for this species," Wetzler said. "When you have a species threatened by global warming, it only makes sense to reduce all the other stresses, including hunting."”-Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:30pm EDThttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62H52R20100318

The meat of clones will never doFor palettes fine—refined like mine.I've tasted polar bear ragoutAnd eaten baiji cooked in wine.

I never let the people sayI have no use for scarcer fare.One cannot measure food's dismayWith what I gain: they don't compare.

The hypocrites are shocked I'm sure.To keep their jobs, they smog with crude.To keep their false facade secure,They let machines prepare their food.

The Near-Senile Magnetic Cloud Speaks Out of Turn During a Mating Ritual [Today's News Poem, March 19, 2010]http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/near-senile-magnetic-cloud-speaks-out.html“... Bangladesh, to the vast, such as the US; from the familiar - England, New Zealand... What unites such a disparate group is concern about climate change. They have all signed on to participate in Earth Hour next Saturday.”--JENNIE CURTIN, Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 2010 http://www.smh.com.au/environment/earth-hour/nations-large-and-small-join-climate-change-campaign-20100319-qmay.html

What can't forget cannot recallIt seems. The rest of you convergeYour nebulae in mating brawls,While memories in me emerge

Of stately solar births. With gasIt starts... but then the sparking burst! You judge importance by its mass.Like you, I watched the giants first;

But atoms lust as well and linkTogether. Once I saw some chains—Of acid really—learn to think.Astonishing! I watched the brains

Of little nothings come aware.And every time I noted oneIt decomposed. I learned to careFor trifles; loved their micro-sun.

Though starved of energy, their lifeReplenished me. Their sense of fourDimensions, crude. Their frantic strifeWould end before I'd even store

My memories. They loved our kindYou know, and envied us as well.They prayed to us, to me to findA way to save them all—to quell

Their rightful fears of death. I saidI care for them: they called me God.With speech, I seemed to end their dread.They scattered, left their rocky clod.

Before explosions killed that race,Before they wandered outer space,They hoped to find enlightened grace.It's there, I said, in every place.http://toylit.blogspot.com